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- Measured blockchain throughput: September 2026
Across 38 blockchains measured daily in September 2026, Solana's median rate of 3,734 transactions per second led the field, and even with vote transactions removed it exceeded the other 37 chains' median rates added together.
- Solana recorded a median of 3,734 transactions per second across September 2026, or about 1,435 with validator vote transactions removed.
- Even excluding votes, Solana's median rate exceeded the other 37 measured chains' median rates combined, which sum to about 1,046 transactions per second.
- Base processed about 4.4 times as many transactions per second as Ethereum mainnet, at a median of 82.3 against 18.8.
- Bitcoin in September 2026: an $87K high, then a pullback
Bitcoin rose above $87,000 on September 21, 2026, its highest level since January, then gave back part of the move and traded near $83,700 on September 30.
- Circle launches Arc mainnet with USDC as its gas token
Circle launched the mainnet of Arc, its own layer-1 blockchain, on September 16, 2026, with fees paid in USDC and a founding validator group that includes BlackRock, DTCC, Visa and Mastercard.
- House panel advances Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill
On September 16, 2026, the House Financial Services Committee voted 28 to 21 to advance H.R. 8957, a bill that would write the federal Strategic Bitcoin Reserve into law.
- SEC opens a five-year lane for tokenized stock trading
On September 17, 2026, the SEC granted a five-year exemption that lets qualifying venues trade tokenized US-listed stocks through automated market makers without registering as exchanges.
- The Senate blocked the CLARITY Act: what changes for buyers
On September 15, 2026, the US Senate voted 49 to 50 against advancing the CLARITY Act, the crypto market-structure bill, so the rules for buying crypto in the United States stay as they were.
- What a buyability grade means
A buyability grade is a letter from A to E summarizing how many exchanges are verified to sell a given coin where you live.
- How we measure chain throughput
Every transactions-per-second figure on RampAtlas is counted from recent blocks on a chain's own public node, not taken from its marketing.
- RampAtlas is live
RampAtlas answers one question: where you can buy a given cryptocurrency from where you live, and what it will cost.